[Q] Battery Trouble - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hi Im running stockorama on my wifes phone, i have confirmed no running apps, she only has three installed after flashing and she loses roughly 7-10% battery life every 45 minutes while doing absolutely nothing and even more when she is actively using the phone. I have tried a different rom, clean flashed stockorama again, and installed all kinds of battery/memory apps to try and help. So far nothing has worked. I currently have her back on Stckorama and the battery drain is god awful. Any ideas? It shows that screen life and android OS are usually what is draining the most.

ebonvahn said:
Hi Im running stockorama on my wifes phone, i have confirmed no running apps, she only has three installed after flashing and she loses roughly 7-10% battery life every 45 minutes while doing absolutely nothing and even more when she is actively using the phone. I have tried a different rom, clean flashed stockorama again, and installed all kinds of battery/memory apps to try and help. So far nothing has worked. I currently have her back on Stckorama and the battery drain is god awful. Any ideas? It shows that screen life and android OS are usually what is draining the most.
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Since you have tried many roms and the problem persists on all of them, it sounds like your problem is hardware related. If you have another S3, try swapping batteries and see if that helps. If not, flash stock rom and take it in for a warranty replacement.

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debug battery issue

I'm wondering how i can check which app/app's uses my battery power most.
Just put my Desire away for 1 hour, and even in standby mode i'm losing +/- 5% per hour. I don't think this is normal, so if somebody can help me find the problem i would be really thankful
On your phone dialler press: *#*#4636#*#* then tap battery history. Tap other usage, then choose partial wake usage. This should show you anything that is running while the phone is in standby.
socktug said:
On your phone dialler press: *#*#4636#*#* then tap battery history. Tap other usage, then choose partial wake usage. This should show you anything that is running while the phone is in standby.
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Ok, well not much. I only see the android system is running and my dialer one.
Do you have decent network signal? A poor 3g reception can cause battery drain. Other than that, if you don't have anything preventing the phone from sleeping. I'm lost!
Well my 3g connection is not really strong, but it's terrible either.
Maybe i'll reflash the rom or try another one, and see what happens.
A lot of people swear by Pays 2.1 roms and their battery life, so you might want to test one of them.
And i just got used to the speed of 2.2
Lol, you are not the only person reporting high battery drain on a froyo rom. Nekromantik was also having this issue. He said that 2.1 was much better.
I've tried about every rom out and am back to 2.1 for now.
Maybe i will flash 2.1 back. First i'm going to look for the pay roms you talked about.
HERE they are. I've tried and like the Brave Soul version.
Thnx, downloading now.
Last question. Is there a very big speed defference with the 2.2 roms ? I only know that the linpack benchmarks where amazing with 2.2
To be honest, I don't play games etc on my phone so I don't really know. As far as day to day usage goes I notice no difference in browsing, emailing, texting and calling.
Sometimes i like to play games, just to kill some time
Flashing v2.0 now.
I think my battery is just broken. . .
After flashing it went from 100% to 95 in 3 minutes, when istalling 3 apps.
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HERE they are. I've tried and like the Brave Soul version.
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Had the same problem with the 2.2 ROM. Battery was going very fast. Reflashed Pays 2.1 and everything is better.
Besides I think the Pays has a lot of widgets already in.
Gerigo-Greece said:
Had the same problem with the 2.2 ROM. Battery was going very fast. Reflashed Pays 2.1 and everything is better.
Besides I think the Pays has a lot of widgets already in.
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So which one do you use. My battery is still running backwards.
Try to wipe your battery stats and put the phone in the charger over the night. Before wiping the battery stats i suffered from a big battery drain aswell, but after wiping it improved.
Zappza said:
Try to wipe your battery stats and put the phone in the charger over the night. Before wiping the battery stats i suffered from a big battery drain aswell, but after wiping it improved.
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Thnx for the tip, i will try that tonight.
I have Defrost 0.9d last frYo but after i lost my
3G settings as well mms/internet/striming &
cant find that settings I unrooted phone
& after 1st day noticed battery extended work with 2.1 original ROM
& I`m still on original 2.1 ROM, with disire camera&video .
How do you wipe the battery stats?!
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[Q] AARRGGH!....Battery on my Evo stinks!

Configuring this thing for good battery life is exhausting. Before root I had done most things listed in this thread : http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tweaks-for-superb-battery-life-in-evo/ and finally achieved pretty good battery life.
After root, I have never been able to achieve this even though the bloatware isnt running, have various tweaks on there for performance, and so on.
Have tried Fresh Rom with stock and Kings #11 and liked it but had terrible battery life. Tried Myn's 2.2 with stock, Kings #11, and Netarchy and battery was not much better. Now running AVA9 (no flashed kernel) and battery is no better. Have tried running setCPU on all these setups and does not help.
Any suggestions? Seems someone will say this rom/kernel combo works for them and another person will say it sucks, don't use it.
I couldn't stick with Myn's because there were too many bugs/errors. If my best bet is to go back to all HTC stock rom w/root then so be it.
.....and yes, I have read through the numerous amount of threads on this topic but no clear combination has been highlighted that I have seen. I use my phone for business primarily so it needs to last me as long as possible. The thought of increasing my phone size with an extended battery is not appealing to me.
I have stock rooted 3.29. I initially did the plug-unplug trick when I got the phone. Then, I turned off always on data, and set email, google accounts, and Sense weather widget to update once an hour. Phone behaves the same as when data is always on, so I don't even notice 3G off when the screen is off.
I get 8 - 10 hours under very heavy use (constant fiddling, email, games, internet, calls, etc),
10 - 15 hours moderate (surfing, ebooks, email, internet),
and easily 18+ with light use (email, occasional light surfing, occasional call)
I have everything the same as before root so with the bloatware and some other things not running would think it would last longer than stock......not!
@greyopaque...what was the reasoning for using stock rom instead of custom? Battery life or just never tried any of the others? Would like to know if your battery life is better with just the stock over others.
Ditto....I am a heavy user and leave everything running that I need. I use the phone for what it was made for. After trying/not trying all different types of roms/battery tweaks/advanced task killers/battery monitors etc., I decided to buy another original red 1500 battery as I don't like the extended battery look either. So, until they come with better battery technology....I guess that would be the career to go into and make some money ;0).....we are stuck with the best phone ever...yet....with a battery life that sucks for those of us that put the phone to the test....have a great day!
Yep...only problem is having to shut the phone off, change battery, then power back on. All the while, missing whatever phone calls come in.
***My point of the thread really isn't the terrible stock battery but the fact that the pre-rooted setup lasted so much longer than the rooted w/custom rom. Why??
I would think the battery life would get better without all the bloatware and other worthless services running all the time.
Once again.. you need to check your apps. Most likely there's something causing a drain.. Try updating to the newest rooted stock roms (3.30). The new kernel is definitely an improvement.
As an aside.. what bugs did you have with myn's 2.2 rls2? I ran it, and it was fine. Now on rls3 beta and amazing rom with great battery (3.30 base).
To be honest, I've never tried anything else. I really like the stock Sense experience... and since this is a work phone, I need it to work without glitches.
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@greyopaque...what was the reasoning for using stock rom instead of custom? Battery life or just never tried any of the others? Would like to know if your battery life is better with just the stock over others.
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Well....hopefully I can hear from some peeps that have used a good amount of custom roms/kernels, as well as the stock one and see what they think.
Cmon guys....let me know!
@eyeballer1......Myn's was just acting weird and I kept getting a "com.htc.bgp" force close that I couldn't fix. Also, I have tried the newest stock rom but it is just so darn plain jane didn't keep it on long enough to test it. As for apps, I have basically the same apps on my phone that I had before root (except for specific root apps such as rom manager, titanium, etc).
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Ditto....I am a heavy user and leave everything running that I need. I use the phone for what it was made for. After trying/not trying all different types of roms/battery tweaks/advanced task killers/battery monitors etc., I decided to buy another original red 1500 battery as I don't like the extended battery look either. So, until they come with better battery technology....I guess that would be the career to go into and make some money ;0).....we are stuck with the best phone ever...yet....with a battery life that sucks for those of us that put the phone to the test....have a great day!
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Sadly they won't.. That is battery technology.. This world is pretty much stuck where its at and will probably stay there.. Its the one thing that is not progressing that much.. Even from the 50's
That said.. the thicker battery is the way to go.. Only you will know its thicker, and trust me.. ITS NOT THAT BAD! Believe it or not you get used to it.. If its for business, well then a thicker battery should not bother you at all, use it during the day and maybe at night switch back to the smaller one.. You know, for the dates and ****
The thicker battery will be a life savior.. All these battery tricks and tips help, but nothing is going to be mind blowing.. The fact is, this phone is extremely advanced and requires a lot of power.. I just except the fact that I need to be close to a power charger at most times..
I might go ahead and try Myn's new beta with 3.30 and see what happens. Looks as though I need to look deep into what is actually using my battery. I have always used K-9 for email and have heard it sucks up battery, but it only uses about 2% on mine and is the best email app I have ever found.
@fastfed......I'll have to ask my wife if I can go on a date sometime.
what helped me the most was wiping battery stats correctly (as per cyanogen wiki, but applies to all roms).
Charge to full, turn off, wipe battery stats. Turn back on, wait till everythings loaded, unplug. Use as normal until battery dies (do not charge at all until battery dies). Recharge fully in one go (meaning do not unplug while charging until full). Use and charge as normal.
This should be done whenever flashing new rom.
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I also use k9 for mail. As I use Hotmail not Gmail.. is it really that bad? Anything else out there ?
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The biggest positive jump I have seen in regards to battery life was going from Cm6 to 3.29 ruu stock, then I ur3 to root.
I'm still sceptical that the 3.30 zip update gave any improvement to battery life as I have seen others report. In fact, I almost wonder if I somehow have less battery life now, but it could be in my head. It's almost impossible to approach this issue scientifically since I use this evo all day.
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Try bakedsnack 1.8, its the best battery life I've seen on a rom w/o having to make all these stupid tweeks and disabling features on ur phone.
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I'm gettin great battery life using vaelpak 2.3 with the stock htc kernel. I imagine most of the custom kernels around are based off of older kernels and while they may have higher "performance" ratings though I have hardly been able to tell a difference between kings 11 or baked speed and battery, I think the newer stock kernel is your best choice no set cpu to worry about, its just simple. I'm personally gettin about 14 hours with almost constant music playing to bluetooth headset, a bunch of browsing, and occasional use of google navigation which is a big battery eater. With just phone and text use after 21 hours I was at 52% yesterday.
ok so i have literally flashed every major rom / kernel and a comination of each. I have found that with minor tweaking most sense based roms get close to the same battery life. some people will argue that this or that rom is best but I would challenge others to truely preform a test on them and i bet they would be suprised.
k-9 is only a battery hog if you have it constantly polling for new emails if you have it set up to scan constantly then it will take a reasonable about of battery life but nothing more then most other email apps with the same settings.
have you tried as was lsited above and recalibrating your battery? I am assuming you are a pretty heavy user from the sound of things. How long where you getting pre root and how long are you now getting rooted? do you have titanium back up set up on a schedule? If so that can cause major battery drain as it sometimes keeps your phone awake.
All in all with the information you provided no one can actually tell you what is wrong. there are to many variabes and everything we say is a shot in the dark hoping to hit common problems.
my best recomendation configure your battery stats as listed above, if you havent tried use the HTC trick (chrage battery for 8 hours turn off phone charge for 1 hour turn on phone unplug it or 2 minutes then turn it off and charge for another hour.)
Anytime you wipe data you wipe your batary stats and it can drasitally impact your phones "battery life".
At this point I'm not so sure my battery or charging device on the phone isn't defective. But, only time will tell.
Currently I am running the newest, non-beta Myn TwoPointTwo and Netarchy 4.2 non-havs. I also ran this procedure (which fachadick already suggested):
1. Phone on...charge until green light comes on. Immediately unplug and turn phone off.
2. Plug phone back in until green light comes on again. Immediately boot into Recovery and wipe battery stats.
3. Use the phone on battery until dies.
4. recharge phone to 100%
I'm still on step 3. Will report back after a few days.
I had never heard of doing this when switching roms so hopefully it will help since I have swapped out a good amount lately.
Does anyone know where to get the newest HTC flashable kernel based on the new 3.30 release? All I have found is the rom package.

[Q] How to take my SGS2 completely to stock ICS

I upgraded my stock rooted GB SGS2 to ICS with Kies on the 12th. Battery life has been awful compared to what I got on stock GB (15-18 hours with normal use) I'm now losing about 10% an hour just sitting idle. If I use my phone at all it won't last 8 hours before the battery is at about 10%.
I did a factory reset and re rooted two days ago and I made it about about the same amount of time before the battery was almost dead again. Last night, I did a factory reset and flashed T989UVLE1_T989TMBLE1_T989UVLE1_HOME.tar with odin then rooted and still about 8 hours after I took it off the charger it's at 20% and I've barely even touched it today. I do not have any apps or widgets installed that I didn't before on GB. I didn't restore the apps with Titanium Backup, I manually downloaded each one from the Play Store. I've wiped the cache and fixed permissions in an attempt to get S-Voice to stop crashing.
Another problem I have is issues with bluetooth routing calls through my cars bluetooth. When it is paired my notifications skip and sputter when they go off.
To the best of my knowledge when I Odin'd back to stock ICS that wiped everything out but since I had an issue with my old Vibrant having remnants left over when flashing ROMs I'm wondering if this could be a similar issue. I usually flash with CWM and not Odin Is there something I should be doing to completely wipe everything out and go to stock ICS? Most all comments I've seen say battery life is even better than GB. Mine has gone the opposite way. Help?
Download TDJ's superwipe (theres a thread for it in the dev section) and run it, THEN Odin the stock tar file.
Thank you!
I notice it says after doing to the super wipe to stay in recovery and flash the ROM. Should I find a flashable zip of ICS or is it ok to use Odin after?
I flashed the zip and went ahead and went into download mode and odin'd stock ICS. Google is actually restoring my apps this time...it didn't the first three times so, so far so good. Thanks for the help.
10 hours with very little use and battery us at 25%
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D2H, Question for you... You're rooted, have you tried calibrating your battery yet? The only reason I ask is because I was stock unrooted when I upgraded to ICS and my battery life too sucks BIG TIME. Maybe 5hrs, 6 definately tops. I even tried factory reset (which is questionable), removed the battery, let it drain completely and then pulled the battery again and full charged. Still on pace for 15%+ /hr. with light usage.
When I rooted my Sensation I used a battery calibration app and that improved my battery life by leaps and bounds.
I was thinking of rooting my SGS2 just for this.
No, I've not tried that. I used to do it with my Vibrant and never really saw a big difference. I also saw a post here somewhere on here stating that calibrating the battery was a myth.
I may as well try it though. Otherwise I'm going back to GB as this battery life is unacceptable.
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No, I've not tried that. I used to do it with my Vibrant and never really saw a big difference. I also saw a post here somewhere on here stating that calibrating the battery was a myth.
I may as well try it though. Otherwise I'm going back to GB as this battery life is unacceptable.
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D2H, so whats the status?
Myself I finally bit the bullet and rooted (OMG SO SIMPLE compared to HTC). After rooting I downloaded "BatteryCalibration" from google play (Same app used on my Sensation). After a full charge yesterday, I calibrated...to TRY to drain my battery down completely for the next charge I turned on BT and GPS. This all happened around 8pm last night... Well its 5:08pm next day now and my battery (with BT and GPS still on) is only at 68% now and that's after some surfing, video watching, games.
I have to say give this a try before going back to GB.
Come to find out there was a beta release of HD Widgets that downloaded when all of my apps restored. That was the culprit. I'm back to 16 hours of battery life.
Cool! It's going on 10:30 pm here and my bt and gps are still on and I'm at 29%... This includes more Internet browsing, games, phone calls and Txt msgs. No charging since yesterday. I won't be surprised if it's still on tomorrow morning.

Android System and Android OS draining my battery since updating to 4.1.2

Bone stock, not rooted or rommed.
My battery life used to be phenomenal. I would check at the end of basically every day and averaged 4-8 hours of actual Screen On time. The Screen would account for 40-55% of the usage, followed by all of the*apps*that I had used that day. Android System and Android OS would be pretty far down on the list.*
Now that I have 4.1.2, I'm lucky to hit 3 hours of Screen On time. And now Screen, Android System, and Android OS are accounting for 20% EACH.
I haven't changed any settings or the way that I used the phone. The only thing that has changed is the update.*Is anybody else experiencing this?
I've gotten bettery battery life since 4.1.2, significantly better. Try to perform a factory reset or it could be a faulty device.
Dekz said:
Bone stock, not rooted or rommed.*
y battery life used to be phenomenal. I would check at the end of basically every day and averaged 4-8 hours of actual Screen On time. The Screen would account for 40-55% of the usage, followed by all of the*apps*that I had used that day. Android System and Android OS would be pretty far down on the list.*
Now that I have 4.1.2, I'm lucky to hit 3 hours of Screen On time. And now Screen, Android System, and Android OS are accounting for 20% EACH.
I haven't changed any settings or the way that I used the phone. The only thing that has changed is the update.*Is anybody else experiencing this?
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Yep and I have more or less tried everything including tweaks galore, every suggestion I coukd find, and freezing several dozen apps.
Nothing can be done about this and my guess is Samsung have made an absolute mess of the update. My HTC loses maybe 1% overnight on a bad day, this loses way over 10%.
I'll prob end up switching back to 4.1.1 but unfortunately it doesnt have the tap to reflow feature in the browser (which I use a lot)... I wonder if I can remove it via titanium and restore the newer version which would have reflow on 4.1.1 ??
I have the same problem. As soon as I took my phone off the charger this morning it dropped to 99%. On 4.1.1 it used to last for a good 20 minutes before dropping to 99%. Also last night after about 6 hours of screen time Android System was at the top of my list. And that is with 20 or so system apps frozen or deleted from running.
What's the easiest way to go back to 4.1.1?
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What's the easiest way to go back to 4.1.1?
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Odin pc or mobile pc.. but if your rooted.. it is safer to use mobile odin it is faster and will avoid power outrange
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Is there any way to get the browser from 4.1.2 onto 4.1.1? Titanium backup doesn't seem to restore system apps.
Zero battery life related issues here with 4.1.2 Im starting to think some people probably messed up their phones too much or just got a flaky unit/battery and 4.1.2 exposed those?
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Zero battery life related issues here with 4.1.2 Im starting to think some people probably messed up their phones too much or just got a flaky unit/battery and 4.1.2 exposed those?
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Well I dunno.. I have tried everything and there is definitely a battery drain issue. If it is caused by ebay/whatsapp + facebook, then I'm curious as to why they don't show up in battery usage or betterbatterystats... and I'm also curious why the exact same setup on my HTC EVO 3D does cause these horrendous idle battery drains.
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Well I dunno.. I have tried everything and there is definitely a battery drain issue. If it is caused by ebay/whatsapp + facebook, then I'm curious as to why they don't show up in battery usage or betterbatterystats... and I'm also curious why the exact same setup on my HTC EVO 3D does cause these horrendous idle battery drains.
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Hmm, have you tried using betterbatterystats found here at XDA? It should show you whats keep the phone up.
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Hmm, have you tried using betterbatterystats found here at XDA? It should show you whats keep the phone up.
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Yeah already done all that and there doesnt actually seem to be anything using over like 5%.. I have elimated the higher one yet it still drains ovwr 10% at nite. Or in general idleness.
What I became accustomed to with my previous phones was 0% or 1% drain over many hours if the screen was off. Not 2% or more an hour.
1% drain over 9 hours of deep sleep on Wanam2.8
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I had the same dreaded android os battery drain issue after updating to ma8. Used to have great battery life before that. After freezing Google search, Google now, still no use. Then i realized I installed another weather app at the same time I upgraded the os. Bingo. Un installed that offending app and that fixed the Android os battery drain issue. Hope this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107312
That's specifically my DBT rom (stock everything as well) and I've had battery issues and to be honest, it's still better than most other phones, but I'm getting about 40% less life out of my device now.
I have flashed again, I've reset, and deleted everything and still no luck. It's something with the ROM. I hope the next update will fix it. If it doesn't, I'll revert back to 4.1.1 because I would go to bed with 50% battery life, now I have to charge in the middle of the day if I want to get through a long work day with lots of use.
well the new french 4.1.2 N7100XXDMA6_N7100OXADMA5_N7100XXDLK7 is much better than the last one rlsd in december and my battery drains less now
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1% drain over 9 hours of deep sleep on Wanam2.8
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I have the LTE version so not many choices of custom roms unfortunately.
downgraded to 4.1.1
well i upgraded my note 2 to latest 4.1.2 from 4.1.1 few days ago and battery drain issues started .. i hard reset it many times but same problem.. before update with usage on whatsapp 1% drop down was in 7-8 minutes and after update it was in 4-5 minutes..
so today i downgraded to 4.1.1 again and battery is same like before update again.. cheers..
But you are on the risk of losing your phone itself due to sds
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But you are on the risk of losing your phone itself due to sds
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I'm on 4.1.1, to be exact wanam 1.5 and when I test using emmc check my chip is sane and I passed the test. Should I be worrying about sds?
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i also have same problem on XXDMB2 .i think only some people have battery problems with 4.1.2. Is it related to emmc firmware 0*1f ? Is the kernel reparing the bad sectors by itself? and what is kworker process?

Chronic battery issues with a variety of ROM's

Hi,
I've searched through various threads here and in the development/ROM forums but need some advice and didn't find advice for my specific scenario.
From Jan - Sept this year I was rooted but running the stock 4.1 Android (Rogers), I tried CM10 and a few other custom ROM's but eventually went back to stock carrier TW, with the only root change being the 4.2 Camera (for Photosphere) being installed (via CMW). During that time my device ran pretty ok in terms of battery life.
Then in Sept I started getting serious battery drain issues. I've got a few extra batteries and an external battery charger so I ended up swaping in and out charged batteries twice or three times a day.
So I decided to re-enter the root world and have since tried a variety of ROM's to see if the battery issues might be fixed. Installed TWN recovery rather than CWM, Tried ROM's such as Task650, CM10 Stable, CM10 Daily, and I still am encountering pretty dismal battery life?
I've tried various battery apps and generally keep screen brightness to a minumum, turn off mobile data, and have wifi/gps/bluetooth/sync off for most the day
I can't imagine it's the battery themselves, 1 is the original that came with my GS3 last year, 1 is official Samsung bought a few months ago and two are Anker ones that worked fine for months.
Can anyone recommend a specific ROM that may have worked for you? I haven't really messed around with custom kernals much, only played with kernals and governors a while back when trying out SETCPU (which I havent used in ages).
Any ideas?
Thank You.
Try the app BetterBatteryStats and see what is using up the battery. After a few hours of having the phone idle, look up the process running on the phone that uses the most wake locks.
Hi,
BBS did not really reveal one glaring thing draining the battery while the screen was off.
Any other ideas?

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